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Blueyonder upgraded my 1Mb account to a 4Mb at no extra charge the other week. I'm now getting on average 420k download speed and a max I've seen of 520k

Not bad for £25 a month, I could pay £35 and get a 10Mb service!

Don't seem that long ago I was sitting here on my 28k modem listening to it dialing up and getting around 2k on a download.

Hanley

I'm already on the 4MB service, waiting for my upgrade to 10MB which should happen in November / December

Should see average downloads of 1MB per second

porlkertus

I was on the 2MB service, now its 10MB! What a difference.

Just like when i sold my 206 and bought my scooby =)

HankScorpio

I've got 10 now and it's fab.

You don't get 10 from a lot of places but it's good to know that you're pulling it down as fast as they'll give you it!!

stevebt

iTrader: (8)

mine is the 10mb connection but when on the internet its quite slow still but good for downloading, i downloaded 4 full dvds 19gig for all and it only took 5 hours

RB5-Black

Central Scotland and it's 2.2 meg and that's it

Dazza's-Atom300

Wooohoooo i'll be up for a bit of the 10mb upgrade then... Had 2mb sinse it came out but 10.... hells teeth...
Is it a big improvment guys or what????

daz

HankScorpio

Now it's mostly site dependant, if they can;t give it to you any faster it won't make any difference.

I use this ona regular basis:
http://www.broadbandspeedtest.net/

and for the downloads from their test pool, the highest I've had is 8Mb/s

ALi-B

iTrader: (1)

Grrr, I'm still wainting for our area to be upgraded

ozzy

Is this for Blueyonder?

They upgrade me (BY) to 10Mb a few weeks ago, but performance is very sporadic to say the least. I've used BY for the past 5 years and it has never failed to deliver the bandwidth, but since the upgrade it's fallen way short of what I had expected.

Maybe it's just highlighting the fact that not many places out there can deliver at 10Mbps. I'm currently downloading some Linux distributions from a German site at 5Mbps, so at least it still blazingly fast.

bioforger

iTrader: (1)

Isn't BY n NTL cable n alike capped though?

MrShades

BY have never been capped - and claim they never will... NTL are capped.

Quite how this leaves us BYers when the NTL/BY merger goes through we'll have to see.

Anyway - roll on the end of this month when my 10Mb upgrade happens. I'm having my cable-router changed tomorrow as it 'only' has a 10baseT LAN port, and the upgrade will exhaust that - so the new one has 100baseT!

Shades